K, your reading of events is somewhat at odds with both the old and new Republican House leadership. Perhaps you might care to inform them of the incorrectness of their thought?
Taking his share of the blame for his party's losses, the Georgia Republican said he had misjudged how the public would recoil from the Clinton scandal and how the scandal would drown out other Republican themes. "I mean I totally underestimated the degree to which people would just get sick of 24-hour-a-day talk television and talk radio and then the degree to which this whole scandal became just sort of disgusting by sheer repetition," Gingrich said.
"The American people have certainly indicated in the polls that they don't see it as an impeachable or dismissible offense, and that would have to be considered in the political arena," Livingston said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press."
"This will give us a chance to purge some of the poison that is in the system," Gingrich said, according to a party official who listened to one of the calls.
"What I believe desperately needs to take place is to heal the alienation that currently exists," said Rep. Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a conservative football Hall of Famer who announced his own challenge Friday to Gingrich's second-in-command, Rep. Dick Armey. Largent cited the rifts not just inside the Republican caucus, but between House Republicans and Democrats, House Republicans and the White House.
We're working hard at purging the poison and healing the alienation here, aren't we, K? Always helps to keep telling the people you disagree with they're idiots, and what their opinions really are. All part of our ongoing substantive debate, isn't it, K? Anyway, what ever happened to the UNKNOWABLE outcome of all of this, K? You seem to have become much more knowledgeable about the matter post election.
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